In which Dumbledore has been reading far too many books on Muggle psychology and Snape's desire to strangle his employer reaches dangerous levels. Locked in a classroom with his hated professor until the two can reach an “understanding,” Harry despairs that he is going to be murdered and turned into potions ingredients.

Snape stumbles upon Harry at the top of the Astronomy Tower just a few nights after Sirius’ death and the revealing of Harry’s fate. With Harry standing on the wall, arms outstretched and rambling on about normalcy and destinies, perhaps Snape has reason to worry.

For Harry Potter, heaven took the form of Godric’s Hallow. He soon settled easily into a Voldemort-free life filled with all he had ever longed for: a loving family and normalcy. Death, he decided, was sweet. But nagging thoughts of his old life hung above him like his own personal raincloud. It was there, in his parents’ love filled home, that Harry could not dismiss how much he loved and needed his friends, his Ginny.

The only element of consistency in Harry Potter's life always seemed to be the death of the people who cared about him, the people he loved. One more death, so soon after the last, pushes Harry over the edge. He never would have expected to find solace in such an unlikely place. But with his heart and mind engulfed in a torrent of pain, that is exactly what he finds there.

After a trip to Little Whinging to satisfy his curiosity, Severus returned to Hogwarts sporting a present from the Boy-Who-Lived… drool and bogies. And Potter, only sixteen-months-old, had already earned himself a detention.

While ignorance is often viewed as the only true evil in the world, it does have its benefits. Take, for example, young, friendless Harry Potter. His cousin, Dudley, has succeeded in frightening the other children into avoiding Harry. Only the new student, ignorant to the extent of Dudley’s nature, dares become his friend.